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Bug in Ethereum client leads to split — EVM-compatible chains at risk

A major consensus bug has affected more than half the Ethereum network’s nodes, causing those running older versions of Geth to split from the main network.According to Ethereum software developer Marius van der Wijden, an unknown individual or group exploited a vulnerability affecting earlier versions of Geth, one of Ethereum's

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Avalanche Crippled by Bug Triggered by Unusually High Volume, Engineer Says

An Ava Labs engineer gave a rundown of the small code bug that severely crippled the Avalanche blockchain last week. In a Sunday Medium post, blockchain engineer Patrick O’Grady wrote that increased congestion on the network triggered a “non-deterministic bug” related to how the high-throughput, proof-of-stake blockchain keeps track of transactions. Funds

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Avalanche Developers Rush Client Patch as ‘Bug’ Slows Blockchain Transactions

The Avalanche network has come to a near halt after “a bug in the cross-chain functionality” code that enables the Avalanche protocol and the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) to speak with each other failed under high loads, according to the Avalanche developer team on Reddit.The release of Avalanche’s newest decentralized

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